Considering the Effects of Microbiome and Diet on SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Nanotechnology Roles

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh; Stephanie A Ward; Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh; Emad M El-Omar

doi:10.1021/acsnano.0c03402

Considering the Effects of Microbiome and Diet on SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Nanotechnology Roles

ACS Nano. 2020 May 26;14(5):5179-5182. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03402. Epub 2020 May 1.

Authors

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh¹, Stephanie A Ward^{2

3}, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh^{4

5}, Emad M El-Omar⁶

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
² Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Price of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales 2031, Australia.
³ Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
⁴ Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California Irvine Medical Center, 101 The City Drive, City Tower, Suite 400, Orange, California 92868, United States.
⁵ Nephrology Section, Tibor Rubin Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 5901 E Seventh Street, Long Beach, California 90822, United States.
⁶ Microbiome Research Centre, St George and Sutherland Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.

PMID: 32356654
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03402

Abstract

The impact of dietary patterns and the commensal microbiome on susceptibility to and severity of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus has been largely ignored to date. In this Perspective, we present a rationale for an urgent need to investigate this possible impact and therapeutic options for COVID-19 based on dietary and microbiome modifications. The mitigating role of nanotechnology with relation to the impact of SARS-CoV-2 virus is highlighted.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biosensing Techniques / methods*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / microbiology*
Diet*
Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Humans
Molecular Diagnostic Techniques / methods
Nanotechnology / methods*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / microbiology*